The Alien Tabulatur von Manchester Orchestra

G#m                              C#
The lights were low enough, you guessed
                 F#                                B
You swapped your conscience with your fathers medication
G#m                          C#
Limped from Rome to Lawrenceville
           F#                               B
And on the way wrote out a self-made declaration
G#m                           C#
And when you got to Pleasant Hill
               F#                            B
You forced the traffic to erase your family demons
G#m                           C#
And made a pact with you and F#od
             F#                             B
If you don't move I swear to you I'm gonna make ya

       B    D#m
Do you need me?
       F#    B
Do you need me?
       B    D#m
Do you need me?
       F#    B
Do you need me?

G#m                       C#
When the first officer arrived
               F#                                B
It happened to be the high school bully of your brother
G#m                    C#
When you finally recognized
              F#                               B
You felt some guilt that you had even let him touch you
G#m                           C#
Can you hear me? What's your name?
              F#                                 B
You could not speak just laid amazed at all the damage
G#m                               C#
And as the high school's letting out
        F#                                    B
All the kids saying the same thing that they used to

        B   D#m
It's an alien
        F#   B
It's an alien
        B   D#m
It's an alien
        F#   B
It's an alien

G#m                             C#
The lights are low enough, you guessed
         F#                              B
Hospital food, there's never enough medication
G#m                          C#
The doctor asked about your ears
              F#                                 B
You said your mom said you were made from a revelation
G#m                   C#
The revelation never scares
       F#                                        B
If you came from your drunken dad and a pair of scissors
G#m                       C#
You just finally letting go?
        F#                                 B
Did you mean to take out all those people with you?

       B    D#m
Didn't mean to
       F#    B
Didn't mean to
       B    D#m
Didn't mean to
       F#    B
Didn't mean to

            B    D#m
Oh I didn't mean to (Oh I didn't take the time to learn to let you go)
            F#    B
Oh I didn't mean to (Never letting go)
            B    D#m
No I didn't mean to (Oh I didn't take the time to learn to let you go)
            F#    B
Oh I didn't mean to (Never letting go)

G#m                                                                 F#
Time is here to take your last amendments and believe them on your own
G#m                                                        F#
Time is here to take you by the hand and leave you there alone
G#m                                                              F#
Time has come to take the last commandment and to carve it into stone
G#m                                                        F#
Time has come to take you by the hand and leave you here alone